Zachary Pleat | Media Matters for America

Zachary Pleat is a senior researcher at Media Matters, where he has worked since January 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of South Florida.

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Trump is promoting an unproven COVID-19 cure after reckless speculation on Fox News

03/24/20 4:44 PM EDT
Fox News' coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic: medically inaccurate, malevolently racist, motivated by politics

03/24/20 4:01 PM EDT
Here's how Fox's medical commentators have been spreading misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak

03/16/20 3:40 PM EDT
Fox News is downplaying the risk of coronavirus. That could get people killed.

03/11/20 12:42 PM EDT
News coverage of voting must explain all factors behind long voting lines -- including GOP voter suppression

03/05/20 12:34 PM EST
Broadcast networks and major newspapers continue to ignore Trump’s firing of pandemic leadership in coronavirus coverage

03/03/20 4:33 PM EST
Sunday show hosts fail to mention key context of Trump's coronavirus response

03/02/20 5:13 PM EST
Covering Trump's coronavirus response, major newspapers barely mention that he fired pandemic experts in 2018

02/28/20 3:05 PM EST
Trump has left America vulnerable to the novel coronavirus. Fox is singing his praises anyway.

02/24/20 3:37 PM EST
Right-wing media react to McCabe news by again calling for Trump to pardon Stone

02/14/20 5:15 PM EST
Trump is using Global Entry as political retaliation. Some media outlets aren't calling that out.

02/06/20 2:35 PM EST
How mainstream media failed when covering Trump’s State of the Union speech

02/05/20 5:05 PM EST